https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/more-options-in-converting-polygon-to-raster/idi-p/970415 <P>The Polygon to Raster tool should have more options and a richer ruleset to specify how grid cells are assigned polygon values, and more user options to specify the desired contents of the output raster values.<BR /><BR />1. The user should have more control on how and when a polygon value is assigned to a raster. &nbsp;User input should control what percent of a grid cell needs to be occupied by a polygon in order to receive the value (e.g. user input of "0.4" says that at least 40 percent of a given grid cell must be intersected by the &nbsp;polygon to receive its value). &nbsp;(A similar option should be applied to the Polyline to Raster tool to specify the minimum length of a line within a grid cell for the grid cell to receive its value.) &nbsp;<BR /><BR />2. &nbsp;The user should be able to specify additional output values. &nbsp;For example, &nbsp;a desired output raster value could be the <U>area</U> of the grid cell occupied by the polygon(s) that intersect it. &nbsp; This output raster would then have value for other geoprocessing that is not currently performed by the software -- for example, we could then use the FocalStatistics tool to calculate the <U>total area</U> of all features (say, cultural resources sites) that occur within a user-defined neighborhood of each grid cell as an indication of cultural resources sensitivity.<BR /><BR />The software probably makes these calculations anyway, and capturing them should not cause much additional processing overhead.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /></P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004ZpN --> Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:01:21 GMT EricLink1 2024-07-02T19:01:21Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/more-options-in-converting-polygon-to-raster/idi-p/970415 <P>The Polygon to Raster tool should have more options and a richer ruleset to specify how grid cells are assigned polygon values, and more user options to specify the desired contents of the output raster values.<BR /><BR />1. The user should have more control on how and when a polygon value is assigned to a raster. &nbsp;User input should control what percent of a grid cell needs to be occupied by a polygon in order to receive the value (e.g. user input of "0.4" says that at least 40 percent of a given grid cell must be intersected by the &nbsp;polygon to receive its value). &nbsp;(A similar option should be applied to the Polyline to Raster tool to specify the minimum length of a line within a grid cell for the grid cell to receive its value.) &nbsp;<BR /><BR />2. &nbsp;The user should be able to specify additional output values. &nbsp;For example, &nbsp;a desired output raster value could be the <U>area</U> of the grid cell occupied by the polygon(s) that intersect it. &nbsp; This output raster would then have value for other geoprocessing that is not currently performed by the software -- for example, we could then use the FocalStatistics tool to calculate the <U>total area</U> of all features (say, cultural resources sites) that occur within a user-defined neighborhood of each grid cell as an indication of cultural resources sensitivity.<BR /><BR />The software probably makes these calculations anyway, and capturing them should not cause much additional processing overhead.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /></P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004ZpN --> Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:01:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/more-options-in-converting-polygon-to-raster/idi-p/970415 EricLink1 2024-07-02T19:01:21Z